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Three Essays on Business Analytics: time-series causality, panel data analysis, and design of experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)This dissertation includes three empirical studies focusing on the applications of Business Analytics in the context of financial markets and the online advertisement industry. The first essay examines the existence of a ... -
Three Essays on Financial Modelling with Price Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-21)In this thesis, a class of clustered censored distributions are proposed in various financial modelling processes. In particular, the proposed distribution can accommodate many stylized (observed) phenomena across different ... -
Three Essays on the Economics of Innovation as Adaptation to Climate Change
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-11)This thesis consists of three chapters on technological innovation as adaptation to climate change. The first chapter adopts a non-cooperative game theory model to investigate the relationship between adaptation technology ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON VENDOR MANAGED INVENTORY IN SUPPLY CHAINS
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Consignment Inventory (CI) and a combination of both (C&VMI) are supply-chain sourcing agreements between a vendor and customer. VMI allows the vendor to initiate orders on behalf of the ... -
Three Minutes to Midnight
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-21)In the early 20th century, architects and planners, dissatisfied with the overcrowded and deteriorating state of large cities and inspired by the seemingly infinite possibilities offered by new technologies, began to propose ... -
Three Minutes to Midnight: Civil Defense in the Late Cold War Period
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-20)This thesis examines civil defense in the United States under the Nixon, Carter and Reagan administrations. Throughout the late Cold War period civil defense policy planners employed a philosophy of dual-use. The Defense ... -
Three Papers on the Effects of Competition in Engery Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-29)This thesis comprises three papers examining the impact of competitive pricing or competition on participants in energy markets. The scope of each paper is narrow but focused, dealing with one particular aspect of competition ... -
Three Results in Quantum Physics
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-09)This thesis is split into three disjoint sections. The first deals with two practical issues regarding the use of unitary 2-designs. A simplified description of how to generate elements of the smallest known unitary 2-design ... -
Three Years and Two Continents Apart: A Comparative Study of the Great Sioux War and Anglo-Zulu War
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-26)In 1876 and 1879, the American and British armies suffered extremely similar disasters at, respectively, the Battles of the Little Bighorn and Isandlwana. Though these two colonial reversals have often been compared to one ... -
Three-dimensional Bin Packing in Mixed-case Palletization
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)The Three Dimensional Bin Packing Problem (3DBPP) is within one of the broad categories of the Bin Packing Problem. The other broad categories include the One Dimensional and the Two Dimensional Bin Packing Problem. As we ... -
Three-Dimensional CT Imaging and Microstructural Mechanical Modeling of Corrosion and Freeze-Thaw Damage of Concrete
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-17)Corrosion and freeze-thaw can cause detrimental damage to concrete structures. Understanding concrete damage mechanisms at the micro-level can play an essential role in implementing effective preventive measures and efficient ... -
A three-dimensional damage percolation model
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-19)A combined experimental and analytical approach is used to study damage initiation and evolution in three-dimensional second phase particle fields. A three-dimensional formulation of a damage percolation model is developed ... -
A Three-Dimensional Forward Dynamic Model of the Golf Swing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-30)A three-dimensional (3D) predictive golfer model can be a valuable tool for investigating the golf swing and designing new clubs. A forward dynamic model for simulating golfer drives is presented, which includes: (1) a ... -
Three-Dimensional Hand Tracking and Surface-Geometry Measurement for a Robot-Vision System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-21)Tracking of human motion and object identification and recognition are important in many applications including motion capture for human-machine interaction systems. This research is part of a global project to enable a ... -
Three-Dimensional Optimization of Touch Panel Design with Combinatorial Group Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-25)This thesis documents the optimized design of a touch screen using infrared technology as a three dimensional problem. The framework is fundamentally built on laser diode technology and introduces mirrors for signal ... -
Three-dimensional Simulations of an Internal Solitary Wave Shoaling Over a Shallow Slope
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-03)The transport of sediment is vital for ecological and climatological processes. Sediment can either move up the shelf, or mix into the upper water column as nepheloid layers. Internal solitary waves (ISWs) shoaling along ... -
Three-dimensional wake development and structural loading on dual step cylinders in cross-flow
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-31)Many cylindrical structures in engineering applications undergo flow-induced periodic loading due to the vortex shedding phenomenon. This can lead to early fatigue failure and be a source of unwanted noise. To mitigate or ... -
Three-Photon Excitation of Rubidium Atoms to Rydberg States in a Room Temperature Vapor Cell
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)This thesis presents a method for calculating the absorption of diode lasers in one-photon, two-photon and (Doppler-free) three-photon excitation configurations. The specific three-photon system studied is atomic Rb, 5s1/2 ... -
A Three-Port DC/DC Converter (TPC) for Small-Scale Standalone PV-Battery Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)While conventional electricity generation relies on fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas, renewable energy relies on abundant sources like sunlight, wind, water, and geothermal heat, offering eco-friendly alternatives with ... -
Threshold Voltage Instability and Relaxation in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis presents a study of the bias-induced threshold voltage metastability phenomenon of the hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin film transistors (TFTs). An application of gate bias stress shifts the ...